UK 1966 FDC Robert Burns G.P.O. Commemorative Cover Postmarked Alloway Airmailed to Singapore
Item Number: 000072
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G.P.O. Commemorative Cover
Robert Burns
1759 - 1796
Birthplace of Robert Burns,
Alloway, Ayrshire
Scotland, UK
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language.
He is also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire -- and in Scotland as simply The Bard.
Much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.
Burns' poetry falls into two main groups: English and Scottish. His English poems are, for the most part, inferior specimens of conventional eighteenth-century verse. But in Scottish poetry he achieved triumphs of a quite extraordinary kind. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide.
There are memorials to Robert Burns in:
1 Scotland
2 Australia
3 Canada
4 England
5 New Zealand
6 United States | 
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